ObjectiveFS Mount On Boot Guide For Linux

This guide covers the steps to set up your filesystem to mount automatically upon boot on Linux. For macOS, see this guide.

What You Need

Completed installing ObjectiveFS and running config.

Steps

Check that /etc/objectivefs.env/OBJECTIVEFS_PASSPHRASE exists so you can mount your filesystem without needing to enter the passphrase.
If it doesn’t exist, create the file with your passphrase as the content.
```
$ sudo ls /etc/objectivefs.env
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID         OBJECTIVEFS_LICENSE
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY     OBJECTIVEFS_PASSPHRASE
```
Add the following line in /etc/fstab

<filesystem>  <mount dir>  objectivefs  auto,_netdev  0 0

Note:  
a. Check that `<mount dir>` is an existing empty directory  
b. `_netdev` is used by many Linux distributions to mark the file system as a network file system.  
c. Additional filesystem [mount options](/userguide#mount) can be added after `_netdev` separated by commas.

Example:

s3://bucket-name /ofs objectivefs  auto,_netdev,mt,noatime,nodiratime 0 0

For older RedHat-derived Linux versions (e.g. CentOS 6.5 or older): make sure that network file systems are enabled on boot.

`$ chkconfig --level 3 netfs on
$ chkconfig --list netfs
netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off`

Verify /etc/fstab is set up correctly to mount on boot.
This command can be run without needing to reboot your system.

$ sudo mount -a

Tips

If SELinux is enabled and you get an error during boot, you may need one of the following commands to allow mount on boot.

$ setsebool -P allow_mount_anyfile 1

$ semanage permissive -a mount_t

Examples

All examples below assumes your filesystem is stored in an S3 bucket called myfs and your mount directory is /ofs.

Mount on boot with multithreading and compaction level 3 enabled
Add this line in /etc/fstab:
```
s3://myfs /ofs  objectivefs  auto,_netdev,mt,compact=3  0 0 
```
Mount on boot with disk cache enabled
a. Add a file /etc/objectivefs.env/DISKCACHE_SIZE that contains the desired disk cache size, e.g. 500G. (see disk cache user guide for options)
```
# echo 500G > /etc/objectivefs.env/DISKCACHE_SIZE
```

b. Add this line in /etc/fstab

s3://myfs /ofs  objectivefs  auto,_netdev  0  0

Mount on boot using a different environment variable directory, e.g. /etc/ofs.admin
Add this line in /etc/fstab
```
s3://myfs /ofs  objectivefs  auto,_netdev,env=/etc/ofs.admin  0 0
```

Reference

Mount on Boot User Guide

Last updated by ObjectiveFS staff, May 02, 2020
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